Project Manager; Concrete

Overview

Build More with Your Career at Christman Southeast Constructors

With projects throughout the mid-Atlantic, Christman Southeast Constructors (CSEC) is a great place to begin, continue or grow your career. We're searching for the next generation of innovative minds who want to shape the world and live to build. CSEC is looking for a Concrete Project Manager in our Knoxville, Tennessee region who is experienced in civil, concrete, or general contracting for construction projects.

You will provide overall leadership of concrete projects including but not limited to responsibility for overall safety, profitability and quality of projects. In addition to giving support to Concrete Strategic Planning initiatives, effectively implement and ensure compliance with strategic plan.

• What You Will Do:
• Ensure that safety goals are achieved for responsible projects and identify safe work practices and areas for improvement
• Provide professional conduct on behalf of Christman Southeast Constructors
• Forecast project cost to completion, and project gross profit for each monthly close
• Coordinate directly with Chief of Civil/Concrete Estimating for estimate and bid support including take-off, estimates, proposals and pricing
• Communicate project goals with field leadership and coordinate planning effort
• Project planning including conceiving of civil and concrete means/methods, schedules, change order time and costs, as well as coordinate subcontractors
• Determine subcontractor/vendor buyout, commitments and scope execution
• Develop project budgets based on current estimates and proposals
• Vendor and subcontractor invoice approval
• Develop Schedule of Values (SOV), Owner invoices and ensure timely Owner payments
• Estimate and quote extra work and document changes, ensure extras are loaded into Viewpoint/logs and track/act on Owner contract changes
• Ensure that project controls such as safety forms, work plans, submittals, RFI's, logs and documents are organized, submitted, closed and complete
• Work with project team to develop project and look-ahead schedules. Provide periodic review of schedules to ensure milestone dates are met and schedule delays are documented
• Draft and submit project correspondence in order to document risk-related issues such as delays, claims, extra work and safety hazards

• Required experience, knowledge, and skills for this role include:
• Bachelor s degree in civil engineering, construction management, and other relevant course work, or years of work experience in related job field.
• Five (5+) or more years  of relevant work experience or proven established work history for the position.

• Have the ability to interact with and develop effective working relationships with a wide range of people, including internal and external customers, in different situations.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Able to plan, schedule, and organize tasks while completing work within established deadlines.
• Ability to follow instructions, respond to management direction, take responsibility for own actions, and keep commitments.
• Must have excellent written and oral skills.
• Basic computer knowledge of Microsoft 365 including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Have a passion for team-based planning and problem-solving.
• Have a wholehearted commitment to building strong partnerships to support project goals.

This position regularly requires flexibility in adapting to deadlines, changing schedules, priorities and unpredictable events. Occasional unscheduled overtime and weekend support is required.

Travel is limited and primarily local during the business day, although some projects may require more out-of-area and overnight travel.

At Christman, everyone is an owner. Through our employee stock ownership plan, each employee-owner shares in the collective success and wealth of our nationally recognized company and is eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more.

CSEC is a premier full-service construction contractor with a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century and more than 75 years of regional experience. We are passionate about constructing facilities that drive our economy, improve our public infrastructure, and create the spaces that enable our clients to do what they do best.

With offices in Knoxville, Tennessee and Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina, CSEC specializes in:

• Carpentry & General Trades
• Mass Timber
• General Contracting

Learn more about how you can grow as a Christman Expert, Leader and Partner and build more with us.

The majority of work is completed outside at the construction site and in an office trailer where the project is monitored, and daily decisions are made about construction activities. The position is often exposed to sounds…